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dim m L. H. HAYS.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29. 1912.

Patented 0013.6, 1914.

ziwww 2? THE NORRIS PETERS C0.. PHOIO-LITHO" WASHINGTON. u. c.

UNITED WE OFFron LOUIS H. HAYS,OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOBI TO THE KAYNEE CQMPANY,OF[

CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO. 1

GA MENT.

Application filed June 29, 1912. Serial No. 708,633.

of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applyingthat principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

The present invention relates in general to garments, and in particular it provides a blouse adapted to be easily and conveniently drawn tightly around the waist of the wearer and to be free of surplus material about the waist.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related objects, said invention, then, consists of the means: hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail a certain construction embodying the invention, such disclosed means constituting,however, but one of the various constructions in which the principle of the inventionmay be used.

In said annexed drawing the figure is an elevatlonal view of a garment embodymg the invention.

The invention provides, ablouse provided with the usual arm-holes l and the is of increasing width fromthe bottoms l of the arm-holes downwardly for a part of its length, as at 5. The waist line 6 of the blouse, however, is of less width than the lower end of the part 5, and the sides of the body portion are gradually curved inwardly from the bottom of the part 5 to the waist line, as at 7. At the waist line, the blouse is provided with a hem 8 provided with open ends 9 at thefront of the garment, the blouse being open at its front. The hem 8 is provided with an open slot 10 at a point somewhat removed from the front of the blouse, while in the hem is disposed a single cord, the ends 11 of which are turned up near the front of the garment so that they are crossed by the seam 12, the cord being thus permanently secured within the hem, while a portion of the cord is adapted to Specification of Letters Patent.

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project outwardly through the slot 10 to form a loop 13. a

In use, the blouse is donned by the wearer, who may, himself, then pull a portion of the cord in a loop through the slot in the hem and t1e the loopinto a knot, thus securing the garment snugly around the waist of the wearer. The body portion being of increasing width for the greater part of its length will be comfortably loose, as is desired in a garment of this sort, but because the sides 1 are curved inwardlyto the narrower waist line, the garment will more accurately conform with the waist measurement of the wearer, and the usual bulky and unsightly surplus material at the wearers waist is eliminated. The invention thus provides a blouse adapted to be drawn securely around the wearers waist, which, although it has suflicient width on the waist line to render it easy of adjustment, nevertheless, is free from needless material. The blouse, therefore, isone easyof adjustment and neat and comfortable after adjustment, and, because of the peculiar construction provided by the slotted hem and single adjusting cord, the garment may be removed and donned by the wearer without changing the adjustment.

The part 5 of the body portion is made of substantially uniform width, if desired, instead of increasing width, but nevertheless the waist line is of less than such uni form width and the body portion is curved at its sides from thebottom of such part mwardly to the waist-line. Whether the preferred form with body of downwardly increasing width, or a body of uniform width, be used, the width at thewaist-line is less than the width of the remainder of the body portion and the latter is tapered at its sides for the lower part of its length into the waist-line.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be em loyed instead of the one explained, change eing made as regards the construction herein disclosed, provided the means stated by the following claim or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention An open-front blouse formed with armholes, and having a body portion so cut that it increases in width from the bottom of the arm-holes downwardly for part of its length and is curved at its sides from the bottom of said part inwardly to the Waist-line, the said cord being adapted to project through blouse being of less Width at the Waist-line said slot in the form of a loop.

than at the bottom of said part and being Signed by me this 27th day of June, 1912. provided at the Waist-line With a hem having i 0 open ends atthe front and antopen slot at a LOUIS HAYS point removed from the front, in combina- Attested byfront by the seam of'the hem, a portion of 1.1%

ti'on with a single cord disposed in said ROBERT M. SEE, hem and havlng 1ts ends secured near the HELEi R. Pos'r.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents' each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

